Everyone please send whatever you are able to, whether it is $10, $100 or $1,000+. The DUmmies, Morons, Kos Kiddies and that crew are laughing up their sleeves. Jim may have to make this site members only or allow ads. Better for us to just help with what we can. Maybe you can donate as a memorial for a lost loved one, a servicemember who never made it home or was disabled defending our country. Perhaps you'd like to give to keep free discussion alive and to show them that we're not knuckling under. I'm sure a well thought out or prayerful meditation will lead you to see the need and how you can help. If every registered FReeper and our lurkers would each just help out with a fin or a sawbuck, or better yet a Ben Franklin, we could put this to bed and get on with the conservative cause.

We disagree again, whew now I feel normal. I dont want liberals on FR. If I wanted to fight all day, I would go to DU. Liberals aka o bama voters should be zotted. Let them go play on their own playground.

Murraymom was FR's sole token liberal. While disruptors were zotted, she was allowed to stick around praising Clinton and bashing Bush for reasons that I'm not entirely sure of. Back then though, everyone to the right of Hillary had a voice here, from the moderate to the ultra conservative. People weren't banned for disagreement within conservative orthodoxy. Zots only occurred when liberal newbies signed up specifically to troll the site and egregious violations of posting rules.

I always check the past posting history. I celebrate if it is a deserved zot of what appears to be almost certainly a troll. Sign up date really doesn’t mean anything. It’s past posting history that matters. I never celebrate a zot that I consider wrong and usually comment that I don’t understand why that one was zotted.

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posted on 04/27/2012 9:21:56 AM PDT
by mojitojoe
(American by birth. Southern by the grace of God. Conservative by reason and logic.)

Jim Robinson has every right to state that his activist, conservative site
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Of course he does. Absolutely!! But... has FR ever been in this predicament before? Where the GOP candidate was not allowed to be supported?

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posted on 04/27/2012 9:27:41 AM PDT
by mojitojoe
(American by birth. Southern by the grace of God. Conservative by reason and logic.)

$10.00 from Florida
$50.00 from Never Never Land
$20.00 from California
$20.00 from Missouri
$60.00 from Wisconsin
$50.00 from Texas
$20.00 from Virginia
$10.00 from Texas
$10.00 from New York
$10.00 from Nebraska
$50.00 from Never Never Land
$20.00 from Uruguay
$30.00 from New Jersey

It is arresting to imagine a Romney White House, inevitably filled with as many former Bain colleagues as each of his other public ventures have been: The ­PowerPoints, the 80-20 jargon, the clinical separation of decision-making from ideology, the detachment of those decisions from moral consequence, a persistent blind spot for people as people. It would represent the final ascension of a perfectly American type, one that has already remade the culture of business. I once asked a Bain colleague of Romneys how Romney thought of his own core competence. I think Mitt thinks hes good at being Mitt Romney, the colleague said.

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posted on 04/27/2012 9:30:58 AM PDT
by DJ MacWoW
(America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)

I dont remember the attacks being about Palin (aside from pissant) as much as they were about the blind following and Obama-like cult following she had, and how it was dangerous to get so wrapped up in a candidate. If there were attacks against her, it was that she either wasnt electable or was stringing people on too long.

But I dont remember anyone saying she she wanted girls to have abortions like they said about Perry, or that she was a stalking horse like they said about everyone from Bachmann to Paul, or that she would install a theocracy like they said about Santorum. She got off pretty light in the “personal attacks” arena.

I believe that there used to be a model of free discussion here. But, the number of zots over opinion as opposed to violation of posting rules gives credence to those who say that this model has ceased to exist.

You know that I speak my mind. What you don't know is that I have received well over a dozen messages in the past two years from freepers who said that they were afraid to post similar opinions for fear of being zotted.

That's the fact of it...many long-time freepers do not feel "free" to discuss. I believe that the pendulum will swing back but in the mean-time FR will lose good people.

Strange, you and I both signed up on September 15, 2001. Here a decade later you and I are left sharing the same feeling. Opinion is not welcome here anymore. I've received probably 50 personal emails because people were afraid of posting FReepmails, that's how frightened they were.

After seeing so many of their friends who were here from the start went through Clinton, Bush/Gore, 9/11, Gary Condit, Dan Rather, Kerry/Bush to this...

When I started seeing people actively shill for Obama after Tuesday, I warned that 95% of loyal donating FReepers would leave. I was only trashed by those same people trying to get me banned. Dirtbag the most hateful person towards Sarah Palin is allowed to roam free threatening everyone he comes across but folks who have been loyal to this website and our mission are shown the door, simply outrageous.

The sad fact as many of the folks at the top know David Axelrod has had moles here for years waiting for 2012 to shill for Barack Obama and like Grima Wormtongue in Lord of the Rings, whisper in the King's ear about anyone saying that they will vote AGAINST Obama!!! Oh and outrageous bigots are roaming free as well, I'm pretty sure Colofornian is responsible for atleast 500 - 1000 FReepers leaving as they don't like to be associated with bigots.

YES! This is a Conservative site, established to air and vet Conservative ideas and ideals. How many times do we have to repeat that before it sinks into your puddin’ head?

We are not interested in discussing the joys of the collective, and how happy we (well, those who lick the boots to survive) will all be in our communist utopia courtesy of the leftists in chief that the Washington elite establishment cram down our throats.

There is plenty to talk about and argue about within the realm of Conservative thinking and what works best and what fails.

This isn’t going to be easy, and it isn’t going to be finished in my lifetime, but we must take back our country and once again become the shining beacon of light, good, and hope for the world. And we cannot accomplish that by continuing to vote for the lesser of two evils. Voting for any evil at all = stupid idea that got us into this fix in the first place.

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posted on 04/27/2012 9:32:39 AM PDT
by TheOldLady
(FReepmail me to get ON or OFF the ZOT LIGHTNING ping list)

I for one don't think “free republic” is the bastion of free speech it once was. I read every day, and have donated in the past, but the site lately reminds me of LGF (which baned me when they turned left).

My opinions, while conservative, are likely not welcome on the site, as they don't fit the strict mold required by the administrators.

I call it as I see Romney....and I do understand what a socialist is. You and others prefer to see the image he projects. That is just how it is....

What Jim Robinson chooses to do about the disgruntled Freepers who want to promote Romney for President is entirely up to him......but I will not support Romney nor his policies...nor will I buy into the “fear” being promoted here should Obama win another term as reason to change my opinion of Romney...and that which he most undoubtedly will do if he's elected.

I will be voting down ticket and do a write in. I am at Peace about doing just that. I refuse to support any socialist agenda....let alone the Globalist agenda Romney most assuredly will esculate.

One woman on here used say, with great glee, that Texans and southerners were all in-bred, drug their knuckles, and worse
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So did some others, particularly one closet liberal, named Non-Sequitur. He did it on FR for 10 years. Finally he crossed the line when he went up against Jim by supporting the repeal of DADT and he got the zot.

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posted on 04/27/2012 9:42:32 AM PDT
by mojitojoe
(American by birth. Southern by the grace of God. Conservative by reason and logic.)

“In the real world the most rabid here are a drop in an ocean. If they sit out the election because they do not find Romney palatable they simply wont count. Theirs was one vote among millions. The rest of the grown ups will pick up the fight against this dictator wanna-be Obama and remove the stain from this once great country.”

I voted in a state where my vote doesn’t count for a candidate who will not get the nomination.

In November I will vote for the candidate who will not destroy this country with the single minded hatred evidenced in the past three years.

Let’s say that you are a terminal patient using a doctor who is slowly killing you and you have a chance to change to a doctor who can offer you a new treatment which may not be perfect, but gives you a chance to live.

Look...this election is already a done deal...I would think the Primary would have revealed as much...I will vote just the same because men and woman died so that I might do so.

The media will do as they are told by their stock holders...I have no control over that and neither does anyone else. Romney knew what he would be getting into and is well prepared for the fight with Obama. They both have had years to prepare and knew this would be how it would play out.

The show will go on, with us as the spectators, but if any think their vote is going to move the decided outcome then they are not seeing the reality that our voting system has been hyjacked and they are running with it.

It was a demoralized, ill-equipped army which stood on the shore of the Delaware River in December of 1776...

The year had not gone well for the army. Washington's men had suffered horrendous defeats in New York at the hands of British and Hessian soldiers. The losses of Forts Washington and Lee had levied a heavy toll to the Patriot cause as many troops were killed or taken prisoner, much needed supplies/munitions were abandoned in the evacuation of the forts, and the belief in the possible achievement of independence was dwindling at every turn. As much of the army was forced to retreat across New Jersey, the collective mood of Washington, Congress, and the army darkened. Enlistments were down, desertion was high, and monies from Congress were unavailable. Men on both sides of the conflict and of all stations and ranks began to question if the Revolution could be ending in the same year in which independence was declared.

Even their stoic commander despaired over "a noble cause lost," and wrote to his brother, "I think the game is pretty near up.

But Washington Did Not Surrender, He Became Bolder And Fought Back!

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posted on 04/27/2012 9:45:46 AM PDT
by DJ MacWoW
(America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)

DJ it's not just about Romney it is about everything. I have lost so many friends that I have to speak out. I was harassed for voting for Rick Santorum in the IL Primary when Newt was in single digits.

I was called every name in the sun for criticizing FReepers saying vote for Obama over Romney! Odd their posts disappeared but their accounts exist.

And many people who are in the know acknowledge there are democrat operatives working here.

This isn't about Mitt Romney. I never donated or voted for him. This is about intimidation and threats that go unpunished, which have literally scared people from posting and they've left.

John McCain was bad, but then we had the Tea Party and 2010 and this site was thriving, why? People weren't zotted for voting for McCain over Obama even though we all despised McCain.

I assume I'll be the next head on the chopping block, but I've been called every name under the sun including a democrat, a libertarian, a communist and I signed up 4 days after 9/11... Was there at a Free Republic Support our Troops event in 2003 that drew 5000 patriots to downtown Chicago making Occupy Wall Street look like a picnic.

Now people feel like they are living in the 3rd Episode of Star Wars...

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